Ancient light / John Banville
2012, 3rd Printing. London, England: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #341643
Physical description: 244 pages; 25 cm. Summary: 'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town, assignations in the back of his lover's car on sunny morning and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker - the more recent recollection of the actor's own daughter's suicide ten years before. Subjects: Older men; Fiction. Actors; Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age; Fiction. Loss (Psychology); Fiction.
Price: €10.95